Wellness By Design

Here is a little challenge to create some wellness by design. Start by taking three to five books that you love or ones you keep accessible. One at a time open each book to a random page and read the first paragraph or whole page that draws your eye. Next, write down a quick sentence or two about what you read in a notebook. You can write the book title next to the description if you’d like. Once the summaries are written notice if there are similarities to what you have randomly accumulated from your chosen books. You may be surprised to find that those excerpts have a common thread and most likely a message for you. Interpret it how you may, but just enjoy the exercise.

Photo by: Süd Wachs @videmuscart

It's Time...

Photo by: Austin Chan @austinchan

to bring your daydream into reality. Everyone has something they are envisioning in their minds as they do their every day stuff. Maybe it’s writing a book, a career change, a product idea or a performance piece. Whatever the daydream is, it can be attained through small steps starting with research. Next, it’s important to set non-negotiable time blocks aside to explore the necessary shifts in your lifestyle to bring the daydream to life. During this “day in the life of” process, it may be discovered that you don’t really want to do all the work required to have the daydream part of your life. This is your life and your design of everything in it so you get to decide what parts of that daydream get to take up space and your time. You can call it your Franendream or something more clever. It will probably be better than you envisioned in your head since you took the parts that most inspired you. Keep attempting to bring your daydreams to life since you’ll never know what could be if you don’t try to make it happen.

Fixed Motion-Visual Movement

Fixed Motion-Visual Movement is expressed in the piece "Midge." The elements are in place, but are placed in such a way that they imply motion without actual movement of the individual pieces. This is visual movement. "Midge's," inspiration came from the desire to capture something three-dimensional in movement without motion much like a photograph. It implies, which forces the imagination to take over and finish the story. 

Alexander Calder, sculptor, artist and jewelry designer was famous for creating mobiles that have been in motion since their completion that has lasted beyond their creator's existence. For a creator to have their work in kinetic motion is simply brilliant. Perpetual inspiration from generation to generation, what a wonderful gift!

COMPOSIZIONE

Composition is the language of elements captured in a frame. One element relies on the other to communicate where one leaves off and the other begins. Composition creates a perfect partnership in space. Even an untrained eye knows it when it sees it. Composition equals balance which includes being light and dark, heavy and smooth, classic and modern, bliss and strife… Composition is also a bridge or a mediator of subjects.

Composition is always in view and can be learned over time by standing back and observing all of  the many elements that are joined in a pan around. See the dance of elements and capture them with a click or a brush.

This picture was taken with a 1924 Kodak in Old Montreal in 2010 by natalini.